AMD Ryzen 7 2700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Price

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$ 199.99

$ 13.00 slightly less expensive

$ 212.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5158 points

7399 points

43% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6248 points

8984 points

43% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4785 points

6877 points

43% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4674 points

6735 points

44% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4136 points

6914 points

67% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

129.70 points

207.23 points

59% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5343 points

9632 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1083 points

2079 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5518 points

9706 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1116 points

2147 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

3.40 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

4.6 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

Identical

4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

32 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

332nd of 1,089

170th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 2700 vs Ryzen 7 5700X benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5700X performs better than the Ryzen 7 2700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 2700 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 2700. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 7 5700X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 2700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.